Houston Astros Nike City Connect Collection Review

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I’ve speculated for months as to what the Houston Astros Nike City Connect Jersey would look like, and now, it’s finally here. Let’s take a look. I’ll be reviewing the hat and the jersey separately, before following up with an overall grade of the combination.

Here are my thoughts on the Astros Nike City Connect hats.

The hat keeps the usual star H logo in its place, with a tequila sunrise gradient color scheme. It also adds an orbiting object, rotating around the star, maybe this is the Game 6 Jorge Soler home run ball.

The side of the hat showcases an orange patch with “ASTROS” spelled out in the NASA-like font. In my opinion, this is one of the best hats in franchise history, as it manages to incorporate not only the city of Houston and its space history, but also the jersey history of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

I don’t think the Astros could have done a better job on this hat, besides maybe adding a green bill on the inside.

Grade: A-

Here are my thoughts on the Astros Nike City Connect jerseys.

The jersey itself is blue with orange or the tequila sunrise gradient font and accents. I like the blue, but I would prefer for it to be a darker shade, more like the Colt .45’s color scheme.

Let’s start from the top down. On the inside of the neck, there is a moon lander depiction with the phrase “Go for Launch”. I think this pays great homage to the Space theme. The Nike swoosh is gold, as it is supposed to symbolize the gold insulation on space mission equipment, but the first thing I thought of when seeing it was the World Series championship.

I think many fans thought this as well. It reminded me of the gold or silver pieces Nike added to their March Madness jerseys this year, depending on if the team has previously won a championship or not. Across the chest are the words “Space City”, again in the Nasa-like font.

I saw a mock where “Space” and “City” were on top of each other on one side, and a number on the other, which I think looks better, but this is not bad. The shoulders have a grid pattern to represent star charts, which looks good, but the biggest miss on this jersey is not having this pattern throughout the entire jersey.

That would have taken this from a good jersey, to a great jersey. There’s a Texas patch on the left shoulder, with every Houston area code. This is a good choice, as it resembles the true NASA astronaut suits.

I absolutely love the gradient piping used throughout the jersey, which is based on the 70s rainbow staple. The jersey is complemented by blue pants and a blue hat, to help it look even more like a true NASA suit, which I love.

I dislike the pant numbers used in the 70s jerseys originally, but I like that they incorporated it here for nostalgia. Again, the main thing missing from this jersey is the shoulder star chart pattern, not continuing through the entire jersey.

Grade: B-

Here is my overall verdict for the Astros Nike City Connect collection.

After waiting almost a year for this jersey, I feel somewhat disappointed. I think that the Astros stayed too conservative overall, sticking within the boundaries of the franchise history and not experimenting.

If the Boston Red Sox, with one of the longest uniform traditions in sports history, can release a city connect jersey with a yellow and blue color scheme, completely out of the bounds of their tradition, I think the Astros should have done the same.

However, without all the hype I made surrounding the jersey, this is overall a good product. It looks exactly like what it’s intended to resemble, a NASA space suit. They killed the space theme, incorporating all the elements necessary.

I just wish the star chart pattern would’ve continued throughout the whole jersey. The hat tries its best to make up for it.

Grade: B+

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